“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.”
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
